Re: MILILL

[Keith Palmateer <kpalmate@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You may have found a variation of what I think is a bug in the ILL 
system.  If I choose "Returnable" for an item that was entered as a copy 
request and give it a barcode, scanning it in circulation brings up a fast 
add screen.  The link to the  virtual record stays in the  pending file and 
will clear out when set to return, though with an error message and goes 
into the filled records.  And the virtual record can occasionally hang on 
the patron record and III will have to fix the record.  But, I feel there 
is enough information to allow the patron to have the item. I do not tell 
them there is a problem.

As for the enhancement idea, I agree.  If you can edit an entry from the 
booking module, which is also virtual record and part of the patron's file, 
then the same capability should exist for an ILL record.  Changing the 
request type might call for adding and/or remove data field types.  And 
since the patron record is in Marc record format, that should make it a 
reasonable request.

At 11:49 AM 1/13/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> Using 2002 Phase 3:
>
> {This comes from our ILL Librarian}
>
> > I have a patron - Venice Anderson that has an ILL on Milill.  I have
> > received it - she had entered the request on our PAC and submitted it to
> > me electronically.  She had classified it as a journal article (though it
> > was a book), so when I received it, there was no option for me to enter a
> > barcode number; therefore, it has none in the system.  And, you can't edit
> > the field that would let you change the type of request (as far as I can
> > see).  She had picked the item up before Christmas - we just let her have
> > it.  Circ has a message that she has a ILL ready for pickup - is there a
> > way to check it out to her without a barcode?
> >
> > Related - for enhancements, I would love for there to be a way to edit the
> > information such as barcode that you enter when you receive the item.
> > Also, editing capabilities on the fixed field information of the requests,
> > is necessary.  As mentioned above, the request was incorrectly entered as
> > a journal article; as far as I know, to fix it, you would have to cancel
> > the request and enter again.  I didn't happen to notice the error until I
> > received it and it was not asking for a barcode.  If I remember correctly,
> > it did this even though I classified it as a "returnable" item.
> >
> Jamen McGranahan
> Systems Services Librarian
> Waggoner Library/Trevecca Nazarene University
> 333 Murfreesboro Road
> Nashville, TN  37210
> 615.248.7732
> fax - 615.248.1471
>
>
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Keith Palmateer
Interlibrary Loan Specialist
Sylvania Library
Portland Community College
PO Box 19000
Portland, OR  97280-0990
503.977.4420
503.977.4103 fax
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